The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-16

Board Of Agriculture. Etc. EI;c.
jFrom the News and Gourier9
Inmvartiele Of the Sth alt. Ipictured II
their own paint several Of the fault-tinderS
with the consery ative course Of the Sen
ate during It's last session, who, when
held up to their Own and the observation
of the public, were 50 shocked to see
themselves as other people sew them that
they sought shelter hy attempting to
convince the public that their short
comings were nothing but l2y abnss.
Strange mode OF abuse this, 3.lereI: TO
Gull from ones own words ard ezples-
sions! Save through the generous ex-
ercise of the advantage of few gallant
and impartial headlines, Capt. Tilnlan
has thus far been the Only one TO reply.
He saws that ssthere is az OLD saying that
it is the dog who is hit that ho@ls, and
s'only the truth hurts" Ii Capt. I'LL
man is correct, then must rot tais be the
reason why s'his dislike to trespass any
more on the patience of your readers IS
overcome by the necessity of replying to
the letter OF Col. L. W. loumaas: lie
evidences the vitality OF his movement
by calling attention to the ''ccmnunlca-
tions which have from time to time ap-
peared in your columns. Tbs citation
only proves. perhars. that TIl;nan die
tation and the sweet assurances OF get
ting in on the home stretch c&y be more
potent in certain quarters than, 1t IS be-
lieved by one. OF your correspondents,
VIII be his letters to prominent followers
in Chester, urging them to cr!t;clse ana
condemn Senator Patterson Tor not
voting to turn out the present board OF
agriculture merely to allow Capt. lii
man and his c:ew chance to get loto
the public cheese and become tS.N-eate-s.
Capt. Tillman raised the cry Of catch
thief against the present board, and then
nominated himself for one Of taelr sue
cessorS; but the postponemelt by The
Senate Of the bill 20 reorganize the
board, to use his own expression, Will
compel him to caterwau on the outside
for at least one year more before he BE-
comes tax-eater, however severe and
distasteful it may be to poor tarner
who has to stint. He viii not Ike the
startling cry, 81 can't get ont. / cant
get outl'' But, Ike the disappointed
offce-seeker, Il can't get in! can't gel
in!n Capt. Tillman became so &rGnt!c OF
The war. path that, il his desire 70 3;;Ge
my scalp, lie first sad | hf>! po@re1
forth regular hroGdside G; 2,SSt&te-
ments, and afterwards deteu,I@2 himself
by admitting nearly al Of t..enl. Al
least he only positively denied 1he truth
of one, aud afterwards ad2n1tte'; IN sub
stance the correctness Of that Statement,
ssthat he was self-confessedly 9 miserable
failure in the management oi his own
farm" He intimates that ! TAD . great
deal of brass, and that my head was
added by the commissioners good
LIQUOR. because I considered lis charges
against the commissioner and board OF
sgriculture ssreckless and fallacious.
And supposing that he was as large IL
the eyos vi every one else as be is IN his
own, he intimates that il speaking OF
the disciples of Henry George | could
not possibly have reference to any one
else but himself. One who IS 50 modest
as to assume the championship OF the
rights and interests of three-fourths OF
our citizens, and to caution our United
States Senators that they must study IN
the s.Tillman Catechism: if they desire
to hold their seats, should not be so
ignorant. Had Capt. Tillman been at
ali posted on the current topics OF the
day, he would have known that he was
not the man who said he agreed with
Henry George as far as he could IN his
defence of the masses against the classes.
As to my statement (which he positively
denies) 'sthat he is self-confessedly a
miserable failure in the management OF
his own farm, shall draw the record
on him.
Capt. Tillman's letter, February ?,
1887: s:But there is nothing but cheek,
brazen and unblushi2g, in his furtier
assertion that I am self-confessedly a
miserable failure in the management o.
my own farm. I have never made any
such confession, and have only said l
did not feel competent to teach others,
and that after seventeen years hard
study I did not know how to farm. "
Capt. Tillman's speech, April 90, 1856:
ssThese farmers CT y in pitiful chorus
sWe can't get out We can't get OUT !
have been in that Bastile myself. l have
felt the waters rising higher and higher,
and looked forward without hope as
failure after failure in the cotton crop
left nothing with which to even pay IN
terest. I had to sell some land. l claim
no inspiration but common sense, and
that has been burnt into me by getting
. in debt, renting to negroes, and making
cotton on bought food for horses and
hands. still do not know how to farm. .
ssOh, what tangled web We weave
When first We practice to deceive. "
VIII the Captain still deny his co1fes-
sion of failure? II so, then who or what
was it that did fail? Was It the Govern
ment, the board Of agriculture or the
Senate? Or was it the extcavagant, I'M
becile and incompetent cotton crop that
clouded itself in cutie fish dye and
would not grow, regardless of the fact
that the poor farmer had to stint and
could not even pay interest? J appeal
to the reason Of the public if g ual
whose cotton crop failed year after ) eal
so that he could not even pay interes:
and does not yet know how 10 far.
should be placed on the State board q
agriculture?
Is such man a proper parsonage tc
commission to travel ii ether State: